The Donetsk People’s Republic, a state under construction or a ghost state?
The huge administrative building gives a feeling of emptiness as you enter. Dressed in military fatigues, a soldier keeps the visitor’s register. “Passport!” he says […]
Extractive industries
Mining activities continue to dispossess black families in South Africa
Dispossession in South Africa is associated with the period of colonialism and apartheid. As a result, not much consideration is given to how previously marginalised […]
The faces behind the oil America went to war for
Despite the geopolitical importance of Iraq’s oil, and the central role that oil played in its invasion by a US-led coalition in March 2003, 16 […]
South Africa’s clandestine miners defend their work (and want it to be legal)
Protected from the rain and the sun by plastic sheets tied to sticks, dozens of muscle-bound youngsters apply their strength to making heavy metal cylinders […]
Venezuela: where a crisis and a “gold rush” are creating an environmental disaster
Under glass displays, nappies and coffee are sold as luxury items in the supermarkets of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. Customers’ baskets are mostly empty. […]
Latin America’s environmental challenge
For the 45 million indigenous people of Latin America, their link with the environment goes beyond its potential use as a resource to a spiritual […]
Illegal logging and poverty fuel local tensions in southern Senegal
In the early hours of 6 April 2018 Mustapha Gueye awoke to the buzz of a chainsaw outside his home in Sam Yero Gueye, a […]
In DR Congo, the world’s second largest forest is being ravaged as landless communities struggle for their rights
Thousands of logs loaded into makeshift boats at the port of Inongo at Lake Mai-Ndombe stand ready to be transported to Kinshasa, the capital of […]
Gold war in Colombia: traditional miners against the state
Luz Dary has spent more than half of her life in the mine. This 47-year-old Colombian woman is a chatarrera, a scrap collector: she toils […]
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